Samuel morris lillie



UNITED STATES PATENT OF Ion.

SAMUEL MORRIS LILLIE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SUGAR APPARATUS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF UTILIZING HEAT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR AND SALT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,983, dated November 29, 1892.

Application filed May 4,1886. Serial No. 201,106. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern: bone-black, &c., this water must be heated to Be it known that I, SAMUEL MORRIS LILLIE, the neighborhood of 212 Fahrenheit.

of the city and county of Philadelphia, State The object of my invention is to render of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and such refineries independent of the cities for 55 useful Improvement in the Process of Sugartheir supplies of fresh water and to enable Refining, which consists in introducing the them to obtain from the sea-water-which step of evaporating sea-water by means of the may be had at the cost of pumpingthe hot heat usually employed to heat the water and water they may need in a practically-pure concondensing the vapors and employing the hot ditioni. 6., as distilled water; and the fur- 6o 10 water which results for the usual purposesin ther objects of my invention areto enable the refining processes, while the salt is sepathem to do this and to obtain a valuable byrated and saved, of which process the followproduct namely, salt or a concentrated ing is a specification. brinewholly or largely by the heat now used Sugar-refining demands large quantities of by them in heating the fresh water obtained 65 r 5 hot fresh water for the washing of bone-black from the city.

after filtrations of sugar liquor through it and The process consists in evaporating the seain less quantities for dissolving raw sugars, water to a brine or to salt in a series of airdiluting sirups, &c. It is advantageous to tight pans arranged and operated together as have the Water used for dissolving the raw a multiple effect, the condenser of which is a 70 2o sugars as pure and free from salts in solution surface condenser in which sea-water, afteras possible on account of the property which ward evaporated in a multiple effect, is used many salts possess of preventing the crystalas the cooling agent, and in collecting the hotlization of sugar from its solutions, and which distilled water from the several pans and in consequently if contained in the water used using it after additional heating,if necessary, 7 5 in dissolving the raw sugars in a refinery will for washing bone-black and for the other purlessen the yield of the refined sugar and inposes of the refinery. The process consists, crease the production of the molasses (which further, in using the hot distilled water after is undesirable) in proportion to the amount having passed through the 'black1l. e., the of the salts in solution in the water. It is also char-washingsin a suitable surface heater 8o 0 desirable that the water used in washing the for heating the sea-water preparatory to its bone-black should be as free from suspended being evaporated in the multiple effect. impurities and from salts in solution as pos- The arrangement of a number of evaporasible, for the reasons that the former tend to tors in a series and their operation RS113, m'ul-- T fill the pores of the black and to thereby lesstiple effect are so familiar that I willbhly 85 en its decolorizing power after revivitication state here that the heat which causes evapo-f and that the latter, or some of them, being ration in the system is applied to the first or absorbed into the pores of the black during hottest pan in the series and causes evaporathe washing of the same, have an injurious tionin it, that the vapors from this pan are chemical action upon it during the subsethe source of heat for the evaporation of the o 40 quent reburning and also upon the sugar liqnext coolest pan of the series, and that-,simiuors of the following filtrations. Sulphates larly passing down the series, the vapors of and sulphites may be instanced as being uneach pan are the source of heat for the evapodesirable in Water used for washing boneration in the next lower pan, exceptingin the black. case of the last pan, whose vapors go in the 5 Refineries located in seaport cities are deapparatus I purpose using to a surface conpendent upon the city supply for the fresh denser in which the cooling agent in this prowater used by them, upon which a tax has to cess is sea-water which is afterward to be be paid, amounting usually to a very considevaporated in the multiple effect. erable sum annually, and which has to be ac- In the practicing of my process the heat aproo 5o cepted whatever its degree of purity maybe. plied to the first pan isdispersed among and Before being used in the refinery for washing is contained in the following products of the process, viz: first, in the distilled water condensed in the several pans; second, in the sea-water which flows through the condenser; third, in the salt or brine resulting from the evaporation. The heat contained in the third iten1-viz., in the salt or brine produced-4s small in comparison with the total amount, far the greater portion of the heat being collected in the other two. The heat contained in the condenser-water is that carried into it by the vapors from the last pan, and this amount will be less the greater the number of pans in the series. The remainder of the heat is contained in the hot distilled Water, which is collected from the pans and used in the refinery for washing black, dissolving sugars, &;c. The greater the number of pans in the system the less will be the amount of heat carried to the condenser from the last pan of the series and the less cold sea-water will be required to be passed through the condenser. If the number of pans is sufficiently great, no more sea-water will be needed for the condenser than is afterward evaporated in the multiple effect, and as the condenserwater is the Water evaporated in the multiple effect this heat will be returned to the multiple effect, and consequently no heat be lost to the system by the condenser. In this case all of the heat applied to the system for heating and evaporating is collected in the hot distilled water from the various pans and condenser, with the exception of the small amount of heat contained in the concentrated brine and salt resulting from the evaporation, and also with the exception of that lost from the apparatus by radiation and conduction. Working with this number of pans, the heated distilled water resulting is furnished to the sugar-refinery at the expenditure of but little more heat than would have been required to raise the fresh city-water, which would otherwise be used, to the same temperature, and so with but little increase in the consumption of fuel in the refinery. Whatever may be the number of pans, the heat in the distilled Water delivered to the refinery is heat that is used both in the manufacture of salt, in the refining of sugar, and in the production of pure distilled water for the purposes of the refinery; or, in other words, the heat which has heretofore been used in refineries in heating fresh water is made to serve three useful purposes, viz: It aids in supplying the fresh water, in heating the fresh water, and in furnishig a valuable product-i. 6., salt or concentrated brine. The greater portion of the hot distilled water thus furnished to the refinery is used in washing bone-black, and as it runs from the black it is passed, as another step in my process, through a suitable surface-heater, in which it gives up a certain portion of its heat to seawater simultaneously passing through the heater,which sea-water, partially heated thereby, is evaporated in the multiple effect. By

, this last step in the process the heat in the distilled water delivered by the multiple effeet is returned to the latter in great part and is used again in the manufacture of salt or brine, with the result of lessening the amount of extraneous heat used in the system.

The number of pans in the multiple eifect, as well as the operation of the system, may be varied, and I do not limit myself to any special number of pans, nor to any special way of manipulating them in the practicing of my process. It is apparent that should a sugar-refinery be located in any instance near a supply of any other saline solution than sea-water such solution might be used in the place of the sea-water named in the specification, and I consequently do not limit myself to sea-water as the solution treated by this process.

Thus, having described my invention, I claim as mine- 1. The within-described improvements in the process of sugar-refining and in the manufacture of salt or brine from salt-Water, consisting, first, in evaporating the salt-Water to separate and save the salt or brine by an evaporation in which the water-vapors from the evaporating salt-water are condensed to comparatively-hot distilled water in heating or evaporating the salt-water, and, second, in collecting the hot distilled water resulting from the said evaporation and in Washing bone black, dissolving sugars, &c., in the process of sugar-refining with the same, the distilled water serving as a carrier of the heat used in the manufacture of the salt or brine into the sugar-refining processes and as the medium of its use in the latter, subtantially as specified.

2. The within-described improvements in the process of sugar-refining and inthe manufacture of salt or brine from salt-water, consisting, first, in evaporating the salt-water to separate and save the salt or brine by an evaporation in which the water-vapors from the evaporating salt-water are condensed to comparatively-hot distilled water in heating or evaporating the salt-water; second, in collecting the hot distilled water resulting from the said evaporation and in washing boneblack with the same after a filtration of sugar liquor through the black in the process of sugar-refining, and, third, in again collecting the said hot distilled water after it has been used in washing the bone-black and in heating With it the salt-water preparatory to the evaporation of the latter for the production of salt or brine, the distilled water serving as a carrier of heat used in the manufacture of salt or brine into the sugar-refining processes and again as a carrier of the same heat back into the salt or brine making process, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

S. MORRIS LILLIE.

Witnesses:

MORRIS R. BooKIUs, A. B. Ross.

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